Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1887-07-01
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Senator Platt, of Connecticut, has
an old lady's weakness for tea, which
he always takes in weak doses at his
luncheon.
The secret is out that Oscar Wilde is
a very much henpecked husband. Mrs.
Oscar believes in home rule and begins
at home.
Arts and Letters is the title of a new
bi-monthly magazine just started in
New Orleans. Its editor is Mrs. Mary
Ashley Townsend.
The Duke of Biere, infant Prince OF
Portugal, has seven cradles, which he
occupies in daily rotation by instruction
of the court physician.
Miss Braddon, the English novelist,
receives 5000 for every serial story,
and as much more for the cheap editions
that follow the completion.
An English surgeon is authority for
the statement that the use of rocking
chairs is one of the causes of peoples
deafness and nearsightedness.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker carries
the idea of female emancipation so far
as to demand that half the police force
in large cities consist of women.
ssJesus Godhelp" is the somewhat
startling name on a card which a New
York drummer places before his Gus
toners on his periodical rounds.
Baron Won Tavera, the new Austrian
minister at Washington, is bachelor
about forty years Of age. He speaks
English fluently and is fine musician.
The Mrs. Wallace who is lecturing
the opera singer, but Mrs. Zerelda II.
Wallace, the mother of Gen. Lew
Wallace.
A Bucks County farmer, who sent $40
to Philadelphia firm, IN answer to an
advertisement of the finest feed cutter
in America, received in return a 81 set
of false teeth.
A half century ago in Turkey it was
considered a shame for woman to
read. Now two schools in CONSTANT
nople have been established by the
Sultan himself.
The bindings of books in the British
museum have special significance.
Historical works are in red, theological
in blue, poetical in yellow, and natural
history in green.
Mrs. Hathaway of Louisville, KY,
has been acting Deputy Commissioner
of the Chancery Court in that city.
She is the first woman to fill such
post in Kentucky.
Babin Mahina Chatteigi, the Brah-
min who has come from India as
missionary to this country, is preach
ing successfully in Boston. His oratory
is very attractive.
A regard ring is one set with stones
the initial letters of which, when set in
q certain order, spell the word regard.
They are as follows: 1, ruby; 2,
emerald; 8, garnet; 4, amethyst; 5, ruby;
5; diamond.
In producing the memoirs of General
Grant, there were used gold leaf to the
value of $21, 639, over 25 miles of cloth,
81, 900 skins, and 905 tons of paper.
The commissions paid to agents ex-
ceeded s., 0O0. 900.
Michael Yerger, of Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, glories in the
honor Of having inserted rings in the
noses of over 5000 pigs during two
years, being far ahead of any other man
In the profession, as far as heard from.
According to the Roman Catholic
directory recently published there are
413 priests in the diocese of New York,
312 in Boston, 287 in Baltimore, 282 in
Chicago, 80 in Philadelphia, 254in St.
Louis, 227 in Milwaukee, and 219 in
Cincinnati.
An inventor in Auburn, Me-, who
saws that he has worked $50 days of ten
hours each in the last two years, and
very few of them on Sundays, attributes
his endurance largely to the fact that
he eats but one meal in twenty-four
hours, and that very simple.
Gen. Sherman kisses every girl who
attends the Thursday afternoon re-
ceptions given by his wife in New York.
Since the old warrior has succeeded in
introducing his vivacious st. Louis
custom he is rapidly becoming recon-
ciled to life in the effete East.
The Toronto World hopes that the
statement that the queen is to create
an order for the recognition of editorial
merit on the occasion of her jubilee
will not lessen the offerings of wood
and potatoes which are the earthly
symbols of appreciation of the country
editors labors.
Four little girls in Lebanon, n. h.
joined hands, some months ago to aid
the Orphans home at Franklin by
saving their money and soliciting con-
tributions. The result is that they
have thus far sent to the institution 8
quilts, 8 sheets, z aprons, 4 pairs of
pillow-cases, pairs of mittens, and %
dolls.
Vaccination is to be enforced among
all the workmen employed on the COM
ing Paris exhibition. Each man will
be vaccinated as soon as engaged, and
the government will not only pay for
the necessary medical treatment, but
will continue the mans wages should
his arm become bad and prevent him
from working.
At Albany, N. Y, few days ago
In case between an architect and
client, the client having notified the
architect to stop work after he had
ordered specifications, details and es-
Inmates to be prepared on designs ac-
repted, the client was compelled to pay
81 per cent. on the amount the build
Ing was to cost.
The Kerry cattle are beginning to
attract much attention from American
breeders. The well known hardness
and good milking qualities of this
little breed, as well as the very ex-
cellent quality of the meat produced,
combined with their thrift on poor,
coarse fare and in bleak, exposed situa-
tons, render them valuable for sections
so situated.